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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Acme Hardware To Celebrate Tenth Anniversary Here A month-long sale to open to morrow will mark the 10th an niversary of the Acme Hardware store, Rene and Tony Manno have announced. They will offer numerous free gifts as long as the supply lasts to those who attend the opening of the sale. Women will be pre sented household wax; men will receive steering wheel covers and children ' accompanied by their parents will be given bal loons. The store was founded March 7, 1945, at 134 West Main St., by the same owners. The present store was established at 3 West Sixth St., Oct. 17, 1947. A Cen tral Point branch was opened March 1, 1953. Prizes also will be awarded weekly during the sale. The cus tomer need not buy to partici pate, the owners said. The weekly ''prizes will be awarded each Saturday through April 2, and include an electric blanket, an electric percolator, a china set, an infra-red broiler, and an all-steel bodied wheel barrow. The owners also pointed out that a budget plan has recently been established at the store. Young Woman Driver Grateful To Policeman Red Bank, N. J. (U.R) A young woman driver wrote the Garden State Parkway's state police headquarters here to thank the trooper who helped when the car got a flat tire on the highway. "I have no idea what his name Is," she wrote, "but he was dark, young and very handsome." A spokesman said the descrip tion was not much help in locat ing the man because it applied to "most New Jersey troopers." (ft It doesn't. And here's the story Minimum standards for milk are set by law but Lucerne sets its own special and higher standards. And as a farmer's milk meets or exceeds these standards, Lucerne pays him a bonus for the extra quality. As a result, the finest mil If comes to Lucerne and to you in quality that i3 well above legal standards for purity, flavor and cream-content. Lucerne can sell this bonus quality m3k fet-no extra charge because of money saved on distribution. Lucerne has no expensive door-to-door delivery costs. Rather Lucerne delivers hundreds of i quarts at a time to stores only. . The money Lucerne saves on distribution goes to get the "Bonus Quality" milk. That's why -though it costs more at the farm Lucerne's Bonus Quality costs you no more than any other milk. .f: fljlj J U 11 II Afe GARDEN 1: MM VHARD WA R E T00isj Si pushing L Housewares f 10TH ANNIVERSARY Acme Hardware store, those attending, and the weekly presentation shown below, this week begins a month-long 0f prizes. The Mannos operate a branch store celebration of the 10th anniversary of its in Central Point. The former location, 134 West founding by Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Manno. A sale Main st.f js shown above. Manno, the founder, at the store will begin tomorrow and will last is shown in the inset photo, for a month, featuring special prices, gifts for Certainty I'd like BONUS QUALITY MILE LUCERNE Tuesday, March 1, 195S .if it didn't cost more! - c - v- 1 Vjjp TheB0NUS QUiUTYMILK at SAFEWJOT 5 h",iw f J-D.l Automation, New U.S. Technique, May Bring Editor'! Note "Automation" is a word so new it is not in any dictionary. But the production technique it describes is destined to affect every man. woman and child in America. This is the first in a series of three dispatches on automation and its role in the U.S. economy. By REY W. BRUNE United Press Correspondent Detroit (U.R) A new produc tion technique called automa tion is sweeping American in dustry. This much is certain. But what automation holds for the future is not so certain. News of a new "automation factory" means big headlines in Detroit newspapers. In this city whose life is bound so closely to the manufacturing industry, the man-on-the-street probably knows more about automation than in any other city. But while Detroit has found it easy to grasp what automation is, there are not many people here or elsewhere who agree on what automation will mean, what it will bring. Labor Aware ' Automation has already caused wildcat strikes idling thousands. It could bring long, bitter strikes idling, millions. Automation is a factor in CIO United Auto Workers Presi dent Walter Reuther's attempt to win an unprecedented guar anteed annual wage for the auto industry this spring. 117 S. Central ASK : kxmiYi ........ i MkLH I m . mm. A A - Wr 4711 I Automation will bring radical changes in thousands of job classifications. The factory la borer of today will be the skill ed technician of tomorrow. Automation might make the 30 hour week as common as the 40-hour week is today. And while many see this as G. Pass Man Buys Portland Building Portland U.R) A pair of real estate transactions totaling $1,150,000 were completed here yesterday. The nine-story Eastern Out fitting building in Portland was purchased by a Grants Pass lumberman, Ben Dierks, from John P. Haviland and associ ates. Haviland, in turn, announced he had purchased the 59-unit Wilcox apartments in Portland. Sale price of the Eastern building was approximately $650,000. Haviland paid approx imately $500,000 for the garden court tvpe apartments. Plans call for the 25-year-old Eastern building to be convert ed into a modern medical science center with two stories added. f$ twos 4 Days Only Hurry in and Save! Newest Textures, Colors, Prints For Spring-inf o-Easf er Fashions REGULAR 59 COTTON Save nowl Textured fabrics to make Into party dresses as well as sports wear. Pre-shrunk. 35-36. AC REG. 69c PRINTS.. 57c REGULAR 69c RAYON Save 22! Crease-resistant rayon that looks like costly linen. 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In most factories today, a man would lift the part from the belt, feed it into a boring ma chine and then replace it on the belt. A second man ' would be standing nearby to repeat the operation for the second hole. Now, in automation the part would automatically be fed from the conveyor to the first boring machine, move automatically to the second machine and then proceed down the conveyor. No hands would touch it. One work er might be standing by watch ing controls to see the job is done properly. REGULAR 89c SUITING Really outstanding savings! Rayon acetate that's ideal for suits or sepa ratesit's so crease-re- JLAC sistant. Washable. 45'. Oyrf. REG. 89c CRISP GINGHAM Save on Famous Goley and Lord's "Yardstick" fabric Plaids or checks for separates, dresses or sports- 'M "9 Q wear. Sanforized. 36 in. REGULAR 98c PRINTS What values! save now on rayons that look like luxurious linen. To make into fashion's favorite dress Q and Jacket costumes. 45'. yj. . Oil Well 'Torpedo' Blast Fatal To Three San Angelo, Tex (U.R) A nitroglycerin "torpedo" being readied at an oil well exploded yesterday, blowing three men to bits and seriously injuring two others. The blast was belived touch ed off by one of the men at tempting to attach a line to m nitroglycerin shot to lower it into the oil well. The "shot" was reported equi valent to about 18 sticks of dyn amite. Parts of the bodies of the victims were blown 300 yards. The men killed were identi fied as C. R. Boyd and Raymond Earl Ridley, both of Snyder, Tex. and V. B. Floyd of Wichita Falls and Electra. Convicted Slayer Gets Time Extension Portland (U.R) Convicted wife-slayer George F. Sack of Portland has been given anoth er month to prepare a bill of ex ceptions in the appeal of his mur der conviction to the State Su preme court. Sack was to have died in the gas chamber Dec. 10, for the slaying of his wife, Goldie, but the appeal caused indefinite post ponement of the execution. John P. Hannon, Sack's at torney, now has until March 31 to prepare this bill. He also re ceived two earlier extensions. Phone 2-6241 Vfc Simplicity SlmMiHy 4414.
